PROGRAM NOTES Apathy is an attractive place to live. It’s safe, it’s detached, it’s padded like the walls of an asylum. But, it’s as dry as a desert. It’s empty and numb, and ultimately whenever I’ve bargained with myself, I’ve…
PROGRAM NOTES Apathy is an attractive place to live. It’s safe, it’s detached, it’s padded like the walls of an asylum. But, it’s as dry as a desert. It’s empty and numb, and ultimately whenever I’ve bargained with myself, I’ve…
Purchase View Perusal Score J.W. Pepper Editor’s Choice 2024 AND Director’s Choice for 2024! Read more HERE! Program Notes Time, like money or borders between one country and another, is one of those funny human-made concepts that dictate our lives…
Purchase Composer Jennifer Lucy Cook, winner of the North Dakota State University Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition for 2022, demonstrates an uncanny ability to seamlessly blend words into music. The text is by Emily Dickinson, a poet whose profound and independent…
Oxford University Press 2024 Editor’s Choice Winner! PROGRAM NOTESThis song exists because I was once airlifted off of a mountain by emergency helicopter. It was a mountain I’d hiked before, and I’m an experienced hiker. But that year there had…
Program Notes: Hannah Cohoon is one of the earliest known female composers in the United States, and when I discovered this instrumental tune, it was unnamed and without any text. When setting the tune for voices, rather than adding a…
Purchase View Perusal Score For You I Will Be An Island was written while in quarantine, when the greatest act of love that one person could show to another was to keep a healthy distance. This strange phenomenon stood in…
PROGRAM NOTES“Chiaroscuro” literally means “light and shadow” in Italian, and is often used to describe paintings that use extreme contrasts of dark and light. Artists like Caravaggio, da Vinci, and Rembrandt famously employ chiaroscuro techniques, and I am completely captivated…
Purchase View Perusal Score In this text, an excerpt from As You Like It, “Heigh ho, sing heigh ho!” is a celebration with an undercurrent of bitterness. When ingratitude and feigned friendship stings more than the winter wind, you need…